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JOHN s. HARRISON, OF SACRAMENTO, oALrronNrk.

BEEHIVE.

specification of Letters raient No. 26,431, dated Decembterl is, 11859.f f

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOHN S. HARB1SoN,.of Sacramento, in the county ofSacramento and State of California, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Beehives or Arranging the Brood-Comb in the Same;` and Ido hereby declare that the following 1s a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specification, in whichi Figure 1, is avertical transversesection of a bee hive with my improvement applied toit. Fig. 2, is a verticallongitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3, is aperspective view of the queen nursery. Fig. 4, is a perspective `view ofthehoney box. lFigs. 5 and 6, show portions of a honey-comb cut out andone half of said removed portion with its cells turned downperpendicularly, dovetailed in the space formed in the honey comb,Sullicient room being left for the queen cells to be constructed asillustrated in Fig. 5. Fi 7 shows the manner in which the bees ordl-`narily construct queen cells when the worker cells are left in ahorizontal position.

Similar letters of reference in each of the several figures indicatecorresponding parts. `The nature of my invention consists in placing thebee comb known as worker cells in a horizontal or nearly horizontalposition so that the cells shall be vertical or nearly vertical, insteadof horizontal, by the means substantially as hereinafter described andrepresented. This vertical position of the cells enables the bees tofacilitate their labors in the construction of queen cells, as

Ahereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the drawing, I have shown my present improvement applied to a hivepatented by myself J any. 4, 1859, and therefore shall not describe saidhive any further than may be necessary in making evident my presentinvention.

A, A, represents a series of vertical worker frames placed in the bodyof the hive. The frame B, is what I shall term a queen nursery. It is`constructed by attaching metallic or other suitable strips a, a,horizontally to the sides of any one of the movable frames A, leavin aspace of about one inch ufrom the top an about two inches apart;eachpairof stripsforminganapart#` `lbf y ment for the reception of separatesections of worker cells, and `one of eachpair ofstripslg` being movableby a hingeyorpivot, solas to?` open and allow accessto thecomb `whenitist desired to cut off portions ofthe samefwhich t comb worker cells 2")cut intosections"and165.` 1 containing newly laid eggs.` ':Thesesections fit the space between each pair of lstrips@` The brood comb`isarrangedsothatlits cells v z" l stand vertical insteadfofhorizontal." tThef* frame B, thus furnished with brood comb, I il placebetweenothercombs or frames which contain a colony` ofbees destituteMofa queen, andthe bees immediately setto work` l and constructanydesirednumber Ofqueen cells in a straight,` regular and perpendicu-`lar form without building them in that cir#` cularoverhangingformwhichis necesssary l; when constructed from horizontalworker` Q1 cells. By thus arrangingalqueen nursery, 1

The importance f of aneiicient mode of I raising queens to supplycolonies is well `understood by practical apiarians and has been idiscussed by Lamgszro]tf1,` on the Honey Boe,

also the celebrated;` Huber inmhis book` on the honeybee. Andlsincetheintroduction ,3 ofthe various sectional movable worker t t f y framesfor hives itha-s becomedoubly im` portant, in orderto facilitate theipcrggssetpf bees by dividing thecolonylorffopmngar; ;s t

tificial swarms. l v l v It seems necessary `in the economyllof the beeto suspend the queen cell perpendicularly as illustrated in Figs. land 3of my drawings. In doing this from `worker cells cocu-1. ,100

pying a horizontal position the; queen cell `is t frequently projectedbeyond thel fcomb `to v which it is attached, as illustrated in Langs-1,

strot-hs workat page 192, and comes in lcon-1 ff tact with the comb `ina manner"tof?render` lo? impossible the removalof Vsaid corrbgwhen itisdesired togainaccess to the queen cell,

without endangering and oftenfatallyiin .fi juring the queen cell. Myqueen nursery (1g enables the apiarianto rear anywdesiredvllgl number ofqueens with easeand certainty in l ashort time.

My honey boX which is arranged above the sectional movable frames so asto rest on the knife edge top cross pieces of the frames is made inseries of sections d, d, which are open at bottom and both ends. Thesesections have each a bottom cross bar 07,01? diamond form attached toit, so that the bees Will have a chance to build separated combs in eachsection. The bar is made of diamond form so that When the bees haveWorked dovvn to the horizontal axis of the bar they Will commence tofinish and round off .in a

' neat manner, instead of going down yfarther into the gains and beingconfined by eyes or staples g, g, attached t0 the sections as shown. ItWill be seen that the sections all communicate, and thus the bees WillWork more profitably than would be the case if the sections did-notcommunicate, and yetY cells in' a horizontal or nearly horizontalposition, so that'the cells shall be vertical or nearly vertical,instead of horizontal, by the means, or their equivalents, substantiallyas Y set forth, and represented.

' JOHN S. HARBISON. Witnesses:

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W. C. HARBIsoN, JNo. C. BARR.

